Individual Development Plan (Page 18 of 30) in pdf

Inspires Direct Reports

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Challenging employees to do their best. Recognizing that each person has a unique set of internal motivators and using those motivators to make all employees

want to do their best. Demonstrating that the work of every employee is critical to success and inviting each employee to share in the ownership of the unit’s

performance.

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• Treats every employee as if they had the

• Makes an effort to understand the personality

• Inspires others to willingly commit to

same personality and motivation, not as

and motivation of each employee.

organizational goals.

individuals.

• Has difficulty accurately assessing the

• Shares relevant information with employees.

• Continuously solicits input and views of

values, needs, and capabilities of others.

employees for the purpose of building their

development plans and providing them

opportunities for professional achievement.

• Makes decisions without considering the

• Demonstrates trust and belief in the ability of

• Treats each employee as an individual with

ideas of others or the impact those decisions

others.

unique talents, interests, and motives.

will have on others.

• Is unable to effectively set goals for

• Provides rewards and recognition for

• Sets challenging but achievable goals for

employees and has difficulty motivating

contributions.

employees, ensuring that each employee gets the

employees to work towards goals.

support they need in order to succeed

• Continually keeps team up to date on goal

achievement through posting of stats, regular

meetings, and other forms of communication.

Creates and Implements a Shared Vision & Strategy

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Creating, understanding and articulating a detailed picture, direction and future focus for the company, division, or other area of responsibility that is consistent

with the higher level vision of the organization and that clearly maps the way for others to some future period. Anticipating future industry trends, determining

customer needs, and using this information to develop strategic business plans and goals. Demonstrating the ability to effectively translate strategic goals into

appropriate and profitable product and service offerings.

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• Lacks the ability to see future possibilities;

• Creates and communicates a shared vision

• Continually considers, seeks and issues

provides only mundane or unimaginative

for the organization, division or group.

innovative ideas; thinks “out of the box”; reframes

suggestions for the future in order to avoid

how people think, and challenges them to think

risks, resulting in missed opportunities.

creatively.

• Communicates broad visions but has

• Clearly understands challenges and

• Takes a broad and long term view of business

difficulty incorporating specific strategic plans

limitations to goal achievement, and seeks the

opportunities and is willing to take calculated

to make that vision a reality.

best and most ethical way to get beyond the

risks when developing strategies for future

challenges.

business successes.

• Vision statements and ideas are impractical

• Understands and tolerates risk and failure;

• Maintains a keen understanding of current and

and irrelevant to the industry.

learns from it and moves on quickly.

future political, social, economic and industry

trends that may affect the business; uncovers

trends and foresees opportunities that others may

miss; uses knowledge and insights to drive

innovative strategies.

• Lacks an understanding of the "big picture";

• Clearly and effectively translates company's

• Anticipates obstacles to achieving the vision

focuses on internal issues; does not place

strategy into critical success factors for the

and develops effective strategies and tactics for

enough emphasis on external factors affecting

business units; ensures business unit goals are

overcoming them.

the business.

aligned with strategy.

• Establishes business unit plans that are

inconsistent with one another or with the

company's overall values, mission and vision;

fails to "compete collectively and manage

collaboratively".

Individual Development Plan Page 18

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